Midnight massacre

Two editorial writers in the Arab press are critical of Egypt’s government following the New Year’s Day attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria in Egypt in which 21 people were killed. That's the focus of the International Press Review for Monday, 3rd January 2011:

Several of the world’s papers, including The Guardian in the UK, lead on the New Year’s Day bomb explosion outside a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria in northern Egypt. The paper calls it the “midnight massacre” and shows a picture of a blood-stained image of Christ at the al-Qiddissine Church.